My first thought was ....well, lets just say I didn't think it was an accident.
Air brakes line punctured his butt/thigh area and separated the muscle/integument layers as it inflated the space and then spread up into his torso and up to his neck. Whoa.
If he had been inflated in his gut (whether by accident or intent) he would be dead for sure, quickly. Air brake system pressure on a truck system is around 125 psi, so he would have pumped up in the gut and blown up (yuk) rapidly.
This is one weird event and one for the Emergency Med textbooks.
Have slipped between a truck rig and trailer— it’s greasy back there. What may have been happening was he was hooking up the air line from the truck to the trailer brake system, slipped and landed on the truck “spigot” and it turned on.
Horrible really.
My thought too, when I first read headline. Reminded of an event, on purpose with a dude inserting his.... into a water intake tube at a hotel pool... weirdos and usu. dumber n’ hell.